I always turn to the sports pages first, which records people's accomplishments. The front page has nothing but man's failures.

Racial discrimination in public education is unconstitutional.....All provisions of federal, state or local law requiring or permitting such discrimination must yield to this principle.

The most tragic paradox of our time is to be found in the failure of nation-states to recognize the imperatives of internationalism.

Before this distinguished assembly and the world, the bells today proclaim the joyous tidings of the completion of this quietly soaring tower.

Such an opportunity, where the state has undertaken to provide it, is a right which must be made available to all on equal terms.

In The Field Of Public Education, The Doctrine Of 'Separate But Equal' Has No Place

It is doubtful that congress would pass the Bill of Rights if it were introduced today.